Initiatives and Impact
Your lawn is not your living room: Leave some leaves for winter habitat protection!
Lawn as living room, complete with manufactured grass. Let the outdoors be the outdoors to help nature thrive!
(Photo by Will Goodman @carbonmonoxide on Unsplash)
Fall planting is better for shrubs (and other plants)!
Photo: New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus anericanus). Short, compact, showy flower that hosts Summer Azure butterfly.
Beware Stiltgrass: now is the time!
Stiltgrass: now is the time! Recommendations from Blue Ridge PRISM (Photo credit: Chuck Bargeron, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org)
Plant it…they will come
A Swallowtail butterfly visits a Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) now flowering in the VDOT easement that borders Franklin Park between Vermont Avenue and Old Dominion. (Photo: S. Lagerfeld)
Stiltgrass: now is the time!
Stiltgrass: now is the time! Recommendations from Blue Ridge PRISM
Where has all the water gone?
Many thanks to neighbors, without whom this garden project would not succeed!
But it’s so Prreetty!! BEWARE! Lesser Celandine
Lesser celandine invading along Lorraine Avenue in Franklin Park, McLean.
Berries for our birds
Non-migrating birds call this home. Help them overwinter with less stress by providing sources of shelter and food with the right landscape plants. (Image by Chris Chow @chris_chow)